Re: turn on flyspell mode permanently in .emacs

[Kevin Rodgers]

kevmitch@gmail.com wrote:
> So apparently, I'm doing something extremely stupid.
> Flyspell works great if I type "M-x flyspell-mode RET", but that's not
> good enough. I want it to be on all the time in every major mode
> automatically unless I explicitly disable it. So I tried just about
> every combination of all the relevant lines in my .emacs file to no
> avail. My emacs starts up fine, but no flyspell-mode with out having to
> manually issue the command. Can any kind soul out there please direct
> me in what it is I'm doing wrong. Below are my .emacs and site-start.el
> files.
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
> ###########################################################
> #  ~/.emacs
> ###########################################################
> (custom-set-variables
>   ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or
> cut/paste it!
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  '(column-number-mode t)
>  '(matlab-auto-fill nil)
>  '(matlab-comment-region-s "%"))
> (custom-set-faces
>   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste
> it!
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  )
>
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.m$" . matlab-mode))
> (autoload 'flyspell-mode "flyspell" "On-the-fly spelling checking" t)
> (autoload 'global-flyspell-mode "flyspell" "On-the-fly spelling" t)

flyspell.el does not define a global-flyspell-mode command.

> (flyspell-mode 1)

That turns on flyspell in the current buffer, which is *scratch*
when ~/.emacs is loaded.

This is kind of off the wall, but you could try something like this:

(add-hook 'change-major-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (flyspell-mode 1)
            (put 'flyspell-mode 'permanent-local t)))

--
Kevin